Re: Mercury Kills.& so do some School Districts....Let me Share This with you...

[Guest guest]

Some districts try to call these very barbaric 'rooms' as being a

'seclusion' room..which is against the law already..or if it's done

right it can be a Sensory room..which our kids need sometimes..but

Seclusion...isn't that just asking for trouble.. plus it's a lie.

To call these rooms seclusion rooms is an understatement. Imagine if

I put you in a dark closet and closed

the door, and there's no windows (or like usual they are blocked), no

ventilation, and possibly a door locked

or even bolted from the outside. Now .. it would be great to just

imagine these things.. but it isn't great and

it isn't imagined. In the past 12 years as an Educational Advocate

and Reg. Civil Rights Lobbyist I have found:

* 1 child I represented that was in an Illegal Time out room died by

seizure because nobody was watching and there was no window.

* Another child I represented QUIT TALKING at age 6, with no other

excuse except 'trauma'...2 yrs later I got an email she was talking again

* Another child I represented was left alone in the dark and picked at

his body and went to the bathroom #1 and 2, and came home and then

was taken to a local hospital... no charges were filed at that time

but after I got involved and closed 6 more of those rooms there - they

charged him

* Another child I represented that was kept in an illegal time out

room tore his shirt off and used it to go #2.. and was sent home with

no shirt, he was verbal and explained what happened to his mother..who

then called me.

* Another child i represented that was put in an illegal time out room

was found by an aide strapped to a chair with the teachers belt.. I

ended up getting charged on that one..but case was dismissed

(Disturbing the peace).

* Another child I represented that was continually put in a time out

room was having a serious problem with heavy sweats when he came home,

he is verbal and told his mother who then called me - I went to the

school and found that the furnace was in the same room, with no

ducting on the pipes coming in our out.. I went in there and stayed

for 20 mins.. i had to get out but they offered to turn it into a

closet.. I was drenched with sweat. So this parent did not have to go

to anymore appts...and the child no longer had sweating problems...

This went wild as other parents through a fit and someone called the

cops..so they took me.

thats how it is.. so vote to change it.. or it will stay the same.

Don't let this happen to my son, your friends son, or your own

son/daughter.

Just being put in those rooms causes psychological damage and

sometimes will reinforce the maladaptive behavior as the child will

either like the pressure of the restraint..or like the padded walls

that are in 'quasi' acceptable Time Out Rooms...Lets just end it

NOW...we must send a loud and clear message to our country's leader.

Pres. Elect. Obama has shown care in this area and is aware of the

problems facing us parents...Lets send him a message that we will NOT

allow Time Out rooms At All. Register and vote at the below link. I

humbly thank you. -

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/accept_and_sign_the_autism_reform_act_of_2009

Please go and register, comment to vote & Let others know ASAP to do

the same

(Add this link to your email sig. for the next 5 weeks if you

can.....for the kids)

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/accept_and_sign_the_autism_reform_act_of_2009

I appreciate your support in helping children with Autism and other

disabilities.

http://officeofadvocacy.spaces.live.com/ under construction but it's

there..

>

> I know that when I originally asked a few weeks ago about these kind

> of injustices towards our children it was hard for many to respond as

> it brought back old memories. It was easy for the child that is no

> longer here to respond - he ended his life. This is not something I

> 'want to' post about or wanted to even look at. After receiving

> several hundred responses from parents about this going on at their

> schools ( I have them and they keep pouring in ), I then added

> Mandatory Jail Sentences for those that put our children into this

> kind of Jeopardy into the Autism Reform Act of 2009. I'm sure most

> all of you have seen the CNN reports :

>

> http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html

>

> MAKE THIS PUNISHABLE - Prison Sentence Automatic for exposing our kids

> to this .. is within the Autism Reform ACT of 2009.

>

>

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/accept_and_sign_the_autism_reform_act_of_2009

>

> I don't even want to begin going into this as it brings back bad

> memories for many - but this is TODAY's TRUTH. It was the Truth the

> day I originally asked about Illegal Time Out across the ,

> and it will still be the truth tomorrow unless we do something about

> this as a nation. WE CAN. This is America - we have the ability to

> vote. As long as we continue to turn our heads at the 'hard

> questions' they will revisit us just as this did. To the 100's of

> parents that responded offlist and to the 1000's that did on, Thank

> you for being bold enough to tell me what, when, and where - now maybe

> CNN can use some of this information and uncover some of this. Either

> way it will revisit us... So please vote to END this for once and for

> All - NO MORE DEBATE:

>

>

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/accept_and_sign_the_autism_reform_act_of_2009

>

> Now those that questioned my intent know it was not for my self

> satisfaction or to do a morbid study. It's because I personally have

> closed down dozens of these rooms in 5 diff. states.. what about the

> other 45 ? LETS MAKE IT A CRIME to put these kids in these tortuous

> rooms. Time Out can be used with a room divider and a chair. What

> you see in that CNN Report is exactly what I saw when I shut them

> down, and exactly what I wanted to find out about when I asked about

> them.... For at least one child it is too late.. it doesn't have to be

> too late for the next one.

>

> With all Sincerity,

> E. , Sr. The Office of Advocacy for Autistic Children

>